Zechariah 7:11

But they refused to attend, and madly turned their back, and made their ears heavy, so that they should not hear.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

In Context

10and oppress not the widow, or the fatherless, or the stranger, or the poor; and let not one of you remember in his heart the injury of his brother.

12And they made their heart disobedient, so as not to hearken to my law, and the words which the Lord Almighty sent forth by his Spirit by the former prophets: so there was great wrath from the Lord Almighty.

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Cross References

Exodus 10:3And Moses and Aaron went in before Pharaoh, and they said to him, These things saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, How long dost thou refuse to reverence me? Send my people away, that they may serve me.

2 Chronicles 33:10And the Lord spoke to Manasseh, and to his people: but they hearkened not.

Psalms 58:4For, behold, they have hunted after my soul; 1 Violent men have set upon me: 1 Neither is it my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord. 1

Isaiah 1:19And if ye be willing, and hearken to me, ye shall eat the good of the land:

Isaiah 28:12This is the rest to him that is hungry, and this is the calamity: but they would not hear.

Matthew Henry on Zechariah 7:9-14

Wilful Disobedience of Israel; Consequences of Disobedience. ( b. c. 520.) 8 And the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah, saying, 9 Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: 10 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. 11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. 12… Read the whole commentary →

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